The Lowdown: Fox Sports 1, Jenny Taft, Regis Philbin and more...

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It was Game On! over the weekend for Fox Sports 1, Rupert Murdoch’s all-sports cable channel that faces off against ESPN, the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports.

And to mark the kickoff, Fox was kind enough to send Fox Sports Girls and their sidekick Cleatus, the giant robot, to Boston over the weekend to take in the Pats-Tampa Bay game, the Red Sox-Yankees throwdown and UFC fighting at TD Garden.

“I’m just sucking it all in, this is a beautiful city,” Sports gal Canicka Cabarras told the Track.

And Jenny Taft, a BU grad and college lacrosse player, was thrilled to be back in the Hub, where, she said, she “did definitely adapt to the Boston Pride.”

“I’m excited to show the girls Fenway,” she said. “It’s so much more than just a ballpark, it’s really a part of the city’s history.”

The Sports Girls have been on the road for two weeks on a cross-country trip to promote the new 24-hour sports channel, which launched Saturday.

Its first primetime event was the UFC fight at the Garden. Other programming will include MLB, NASCAR, college football, college basketball, UFC, UEFA Champions League plus studio shows (including Regis Philbin’s return to TV). But NFL football will stay on Fox.

Fox is promoting the channel as the “fun” alternative to ESPN and it is considered the first serious threat to the Bristol-based sports behemoth because of its aggressive, deep-pocketed parent company. (Fox Sports 1 just paid a whopping $1.2 billion to acquire the rights to the U.S. Open Golf tourney for 12 years, starting in 2015, outbidding both NBC and ESPN.)

But can the underdog score an upset over the longtime cable champ? As always, do stay tuned. ...